Papa Louie Arcade (or Papa's Gameriawhat? the official name of the series from Flipline Studios) is an umbrella term for the platform games Papa Louie and its More Popular Spin-off of Time Management Games, all set in a universe themed around food. They are produced by the Ohio-based Flipline Studios.

Papa Louie: When Pizzas Attack! is an arcade-style platformer where you must rescue people from evil mutant food as you prepare to battle the nefarious Sarge. The sequel, Papa Louie: When Burgers Attack, features new playable customers with their own weapons, new enemies, and new skills as you battle Sarge, who has been demoted to The Dragon, and Big Bad Radley Madish.

The Gameria games have you working as a restaurateur of different restaurants serving up a variety of hungry customers with a hands-on approach to preparing the food, judging you for cooking and presentation in addition to ordering speed. You earn tips along the way, which you can use to earn upgrades for your restaurant, both to improve productivity and keep your customers entertained as they wait. Every week you also earn a large paycheck, which can be raised through working up the rankings.

Games in the Papa Louie Arcade series (in order of release):

Papa Louie: When Pizzas Attack!

Papa's Pizzeria

Papa's Burgeria

Papa's Taco Mia

Papa's Freezeria

Papa's Pancakeria

Papa's Wingeria

Papa's Hot Doggeria

Papa Louie 2: When Burgers Attack!

Papa's Cupcakeria

Papa's Pastaria

Papa's Donuteria

Papa Louie 3: When Sundaes Attack!

Papa's Cheeseria

Tablet (HD) and Smartphone (To Go!) ports of Papa Louie Arcade games (in order of release):

Papa's Burgeria HD

Papa's Burgeria To Go!

Papa's Freezeria HD

Papa's Freezeria To Go!

Papa's Wingeria HD

Papa's Pizzaria To Go!

Papa's Cupcakeria To Go! (coming soon)

Starting with Pancakeria, you can spend tickets you earn during your shift to win prizes in Foodini's mini-games in between rounds.

This game series contains examples of:

Ascended Glitch: When making When Pizzas Attack, the programmers missed one enemy when replacing placeholder graphics, resulting in there being a lone cheese wheel (far less anthropomorphic than the other food-based baddies) in the game. When Burgers Attack also has a lone cheese wheel enemy, but this time on purpose.

This has become a Running Gag with the release of When Sundaes Attack, which has a lone cheesecake wheel enemy.

Big Eater: Many of the fat customers such as Big Pauly, Kahuna, and Kingsley tend to order large portions of food, though several skinny ones do, too. Some of Big Pauly's orders include large sundae cups, large drink and popcorn, sundaes full of Creameos, no veggies in his hamburger and pancakes with too much whipped cream and chocolate.

Boring but Practical: The doorbell, the cheapest upgrade in any game in the series past Pizzeria. It alerts you when a customer walks in if you're busy in some other station. Once you have it, it's easy to take it for granted, until you decide to go back and try out Pizzeria and suddenly find yourself losing order points for several customers because you were carefully arranging toppings and never noticed them walk in.

Caustic Critic: Averted with Jojo the food critic, first appearing in Taco Mia. If he really likes the dish you serve, he'll give you a blue ribbon, encouraging customers to give you higher tips for three days.

Creator Cameo: The founders of Flipline Studios and creators of the Papa Gameria webgames, Tony Solary and Matt Neff, appear as customers in the games and have appeared since Burgeria. Tony's wife, Mandi, also appears as a customer in the games and was even a playable chef in Wingeria.

Tony is also a playable chef in Papa's Donuteria after he won the 4th annual Papa's Next Chefs tournament, a yearly challenge set up by Flipline Studios to find chefs for their new games.

Double Jump: Scooter, Connor & Peggy have this as their skill in Papa Louie 2.

Early Game Hell: Most gamerias are at their hardest during the first few weeks, before you've managed to buy all the most important upgrades and a decent selection of lobby decorations.

Early Installment Weirdness: Pizzeria lacks a lot of the things people have come to expect from the later games, such as shop upgrades and achievements. The interface is slightly different, such as the order-taking button being below the ticket holder rather than above the customer's head as in later games. Those used to the later games' interface might be a bit confused when going back to this one.

Excuse Plot: Each game begins with a cutscene explaining why your character is working at Papa Louie's latest restaurant.

Happily Adopted: The X Twins Xandra and Xolo are confirmed to be this, with Edna being their adoptive mother.

Hash House Lingo: The Special Order mechanic introduced in Cheeseria often invokes this trope.

High-Class Glass: Georgito, who owns a casino in Starlight City where Wingeria is set.

Holiday Mode: Starting with Cupcakeria, there is an in-game year system, with seasonal ingredients that can only be used certain times of the year and holidays such as Christmas, Halloween, and Chillifest.

Premiseville: Every town established as part of the Papa Louie world except Calypso Island, Starlight City, and Sakura Bay (as in the Sakura Bay Samurais, a baseball team in Hot Doggeria) is a food reference.

Production Foreshadowing: Every game since Hot Doggeria takes place in the home town of one of the baseball teams from Hot Doggeria.

Promoted to Playable: Every playable character except Papa Louie himself, Joy in Pizzaria To Go!, and Yui in When Sundaes Attack was introduced as an NPC before becoming playable.

Put on a Bus: Some of the customers sat out one or more of the early games, in order to keep file sizes down.

Sequel Difficulty Drop: Papa's Pizzeria is harder than later gamerias for many reasons, mostly involving the order and bake stations.

Sequel Difficulty Spike: And then Taco Mia adds closers (customers that demand higher service quality than normal customers), and increases the amount of Dexterity Required by introducing particle physics to the build station. Still not as much of a spike as Pizzeria to Burgeria was a drop, except for the first in-game week or two.

Set Bonus: Starting in Hot Doggeria, lobby decorations only give the full listed bonus if used alongside at least two other decorations of the same theme.

Shout-Out: There are several other Flipline games, including Cactus McCoy. In fact, in Papa's Pancakeria, when you unlock milk with Marty, the image representing it is Steak from Steak and Jake.

Donuteria has the Pon de Ring donut from the Mister Donut franchise available as a seasonal item during the Sky Ninja Returns festival.

Also from Donuteria is Alberto's order, which includes a Homer Simpson-style donut with strawberry frosting and sprinkes.

Breakfast Blast is a clear homage to the clay pigeon mode of Duck Hunt, particularly in Pancakeria, where Pickle the dog or Cookie the cat will encourage/mock the player like the famous Duck Hunt dog. (They're replaced with Foodini for the minigame's appearance in Wingeria, and the game was retired in Hot Doggeria due to complaints from fans about its difficulty)

Trademark Favorite Food: In any given game, every customer except Jojo has a favorite order they will ask for whenever they have the option, and a lot of customers have similar favorite orders from one game to another.

Most customers that reference a When Food Attacks baddie in their outfit have what that baddie is made of as a Trademark Favorite Food.

You Mean Xmas: In every gameria with a holiday system, the July holiday is Starlight Jubilee (or BBQ in Cheeseria), which is celebrated with red, white, and blue star patterned decorations and fireworks.

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